The Lampasas Daily Leader. (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 54, Ed. 1 Monday, May 8, 1916 Page: 3 of 4
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THE LAMPASAS HATLY LEADER
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[aximum Amount of Convenience
i Arranged For in Plan
Shown Here.
IELL WORTH CAREFUL STUDY
ptendlng Builders Will Quickly See
Points That Make Building So
Desirable—Two Silos Provid-
ed, as Cheaper Than One
Large One.
By WILLIAM A. RADFORD.
Mr. William A. Radford will answer
uestions and give advice FREE OF
OST on all subjects pertaining to the
abject of building work on the farm, for
ne readers of this paper. On account of
is wide experience as Editor, Author and
lanufacturer, he is, without doubt, the
jighest authority on all these subjects.
Iddress all inquiries to William A. Rad-
ford, No. 1827 Prairie avenue, Chicago,
II., and only inclose two-cent stamp for
eply.
Three different kinds of material are
is,ed in the construction of the large
:nd well-equipped dairy barn that is
hown here. The foundations are of
oncrete,' the walls up to the floor of
he haymow are of structural tile,
ind the upper part of the barn is
framed.
Concrete is used almost universally
or foundations now, no matter how
he rest of the building is built. Struc-
ural tile makes a most satisfactory
vail for several reasons. Walls made
)f this material are very quickly built
md the air space in the tile forms an
affective insulation against tempera-
;ure changes. Because of the nonab-
sorbent surface of vitrified tile the
walls can be readily washed down and
kept clean Tile is not subject to de-
air in above their heads. The air is
then carried back across the animals
and goes out through the foul-air
shafts back of the cattle, from where
it is carried in flues up along the wall
and along under the roof to the ven-
tilators on the peak. The dotted lines
in the floor plan show the arrange-
ment, with its various parts.
The facing-in arrangement is used
in this plan, but it could be easily
changed to the fa«ing-out style if de-
sired. Such a change would also in-
volve a change in the ventilating sys-
tem, and would make the inlets nearer
the wall and the out-takes in the cen-
tral part of the stabla The tracks
would not have to be changed in any
way howeve-, as the switches make
it possible to run t£e carrier on any
of the tracks from any of the other
tracks. The floor plan clearly shows
the construction and arrangement of
the track, with all the necessary
switches.
All the interior finishings and walls
of the barn should be as smooth as
possible, so that the barn can be
washed down with cold water each
day. All the stanchions are generally
made of enameled iron or japanned
iron, so that the water will not have
any effect on them.
Two silos are included in the plan
for this barn. In many instances the
owner may decide that it would be
better to build one large silo, but very
often it is cheaper to build two small-
er ones. The higher the silo goes the
more it costs per foot to build it, and
very often it is much cheaper, if care-
fully figured out, to build two silos
that do not go very far above the
ground. The feeding is generally very
easy in either case.
One of the details of a barn that is
very important is the type of hanger
that is to be used on the sliding doors.
In a large barn such as this one there
are quite a few sliding doors, and the
best quality of material should be
used, or they will be a nuisance. The
kind that is chosen should have a
cover over the track so as to protect
it from the action of the weather and
also keep the birds out of it. It
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lay and will therefore last indefinitely,
le same as concrete.
■ The upper part of nearly all barns
built of frame because it is so much
■ heaper than any other way of doing
*his work.
The clear space between the floor
and the ceiling is eight feet six inches.
(It is much better to have too much
head room than too little, especially
in a large, well-built barn, which can
be kept warm very easily. There is
another reason for building with
plenty of room. In this particular case
the litter carrier runs out onto a
crane that is high enough above the
ground so that the manure can be
emptied directly into the manure
spreader without all the muss that is
generally caused if the material is
placed in a pile and emptied into the
manure spreader later. If the ground
is on a slope this process can be car-
ried out very readily, but in some
cases a slight depression is dug so
that the manure spreader can be run
into this and lowered enough so that
the carrier will run on the crane well
over it. The crane is shown in the
perspective and also in the floor plan.
The floor plan shows most complete-
ly the extensive and well-designed ven-
tilating system. The intakes are
placed in the structural tile wall and
run over the cows and let the fresh
f HANDICRAFT FOR BOYS AND GIRLS f
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5 A. NEELY HALL and DOROTHY PERKINS £
(Copyright, by A. Neely HalL).
Stand the chairs back to back, as
shown in Fig. 2, and bind together tbet
pair of legs, also the backs, in several
places with wrapping twine. Then
place the grocery boxes on their sides
on the chair seats, so their open tops
will come at the back of the counter,
and bind them to the chair by passing
A MODEL AEROPLANE.
This model aeroplane Is built along
the lines of the models that have won
records for distance flights.
The triangular frame consists of
the two pine side sticks A (Fig. 1), *4
inch square and 32 inches long, and
two bamboo stick B and C, 1-16 inch
thick and % inch wide—B 8 inches
long and C 4^4 inches long.
The bow end of sticks A must be
tapered on the inside edges as shown
in Fig. 2, so they will come together,
and slots must be cut through these
sticks for the ends of sticks B and C
to stick through (Fig. 3). Cut the
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strips in the manner shown in Fig. 11.
The end wire tips should extend be-
yond the wooden strips 2 y2 inches,
a,nd be bent to the angle shown. Cover
the frame with china silk. Sew or
glue this on to the frame, then give it
a thin coat of shellac.
The planes should not be fastened
securely to the model aeroplane frame-
work, but be held to it by rubber bands
so their positions may he adjusted to
the points where they will give the
model the greatest stability in flight
slots for B 2 y2 inches from the stern
end, and the slots for C halfway be-
tween these and the bow end. Slip sep-
arators B and C into the slots, and then
bifid with strong linen thread.
Bow hooks D (Figs.' 1 and 4) sup-
port the bow end of the rubber motor,
and are bent out of a piece of heavy
piano wire. Bend the wire V-shaped
to fit the bow ends of sticks A, and
bind to the sticks with thread (Fig. 1).
The bow ends of sticks A must have
metal bearing-plates similar to E (Fig.
B) bound to them with thread.
A pair of accurately made propellers
can be purchased at toy stores.
The propeller shafts (G, Fig. 8) are
made of heavy piano wire. Bend one
ELEVATOR-
should be strong enough so that there
will be no tendency to sag or break.
Little things like this are often con-
sidered unimportant, but if a farmer
had a door break down during very
cold weather and had to nail it in po-
sition to keep his stock warm until
he could fix it, he would be much more
likely to consider such little things of
importance afterward.
The floor plan shows all the equip-
ment that is necessary to do all the
work in the stable. For instance,
hydrants are placed in the stable to
handle the cleaning. This is a good
plan, because the stable will be warm
enough so that there will be very little
danger of the hydrants freezing, as
they might if they were on the out-
side.
The study of this plan will be worth
while to any man that is interested in
the best modern practice in the ar-
rangement of dairy stables for the
maximum amount of convenience.
Just a Few Needs.
Husband—“Now, then, what are our
needs?” Wife—“Well, the house needs
painting, we are all out of kitchen
utensils, the dining room rug is thread-
bare, the bathroom must be decorated,
and I’ve simply had to order some
clothes.”—Judge.
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A LEMONADE STAND WITH UM-
BRELLA TOP.
What girl doesn’t like to play
“store?” You not only can play
“store” with a lemonade stand, but
earn spending money selling ice-cold
end into a hook (Fig. 7) to receive the
end of the rubber motors, then run
the other end through the hole in bear-
ing-plates E (Fig. 7), slip a glass bead
(H) over it for a “thrust-bearing,” and
run it through the propeller hub and
bend over the side of the hub (Fig. 8).
The motors are made of strands of
rubber. Rubber bands can be looped
in one another, end to end, to form
the strapds, but strands all in one
piece are better. Twelve strands are
needed for each motor. Fasten the
Ready to Begin His Sentence, Prisoner
Had to Wait for His Pursuers
to Return.
The telephone in Sheriff Smith’s of-
fice rang sharply.
“This is Warden Johnson at Lud-
low Street jail,” came through the re-
ceiver. “A lot of trunks and luggage
has been sent here by some guy named
Hauser, and we haven’t got him
booked. Know anything about him?”
“He’s sitting in the anteroom now,”
replied the sheriff. “He wants to be
locked up, but Deputy Sheriff Neilson
is out hunting for him and has got all
the papers. I can’t send him over un-
til Neilson returns with the commit-
ment.”
Half an hour later Neilson appeared
and Bertie Hauser, a wealthy manufac-
turer of ostrich feathers, was turned
over to him. He then began a three
months’ residence in jail.
Hauser owes his wife $144 back ali-
mony and swears he had rather go to
prison than pay it.—New York World.
Stable Floor Plan of Remodeled Dairy Barn. Upper Floor Is Reached by
Concrete Bridge Over Root Cellar at Far End of Barn.
bow ends of the strands to wire rings
(Fig. 6), so they may be slipped on
and off hooks D quickly.
With the motors'in place, the “ele-
vator plane” 1 and "main plane” J
(Figs. 1, 9 and ilO) remain to be made.
Elevator 1 is made of t wo wooden side
strips 15 inches long, 1-16 inch thick,
and Va inch wide, connected with wire
separators bent atld joined to the
New Note on Preparedness.
A well-known newspaper man in In-
dianapolis loves his early morning
sleep.
Recently his wife upbraided him for
not paying enough attention to the
furnace in the mornings.
The next morning the sleeping
“journalist” was roused before dawn
with a rough shake.
“What’s that noise in the cellar?”
the frightened voice of his wife in-
quired.
“That’s me fixin’ the furnace,” he re-
plied, and returned to pleasant snoreq.
Took It Literally.
At the age of four years, when
Billy was visiting Jiis grandma, he
saw a large dog in the yard. His
grandmother explained that it was a
watch dog. Billy thought for a mo-
ment and then asked, eagerly: “Can
you hear him tick?”—Exchange.
a rope around their ends, over their
tops, and down underneath the chay?
seats, tying in a secure knot.
The umbrella top is fastened be-
tween the chair backs as shown in
Fig. 3, with the end of the handle ex-
tending down to about the center of
the backs, and bound with wrapping
twine or rope passed around it in the
criss-cross fashion indicated in Fig. 3.
Tie in two places as shown, and pull
the twine taut so the handle will be
held securely.
Figure 1 suggests how to decorate
the umbrella top of your lemonade*
stand with a small flag bound to the
iron ferrule at the end of the um-
brella handle, and smaller flags tied
to the ends of the umbrella ribs.
Cover the top of the counter with a
piece of oilcloth, white cloth or shelf
paper, and secure some cloth or pa-
per with which to conceal the front
of the counter boxes and the chair
lemonade: and you will find it more
fun selling something real to real
customers than just “pretending.”
Two chairs with straight backs, two
grocery boxes of equal size, and an
umbrella are the principal require-
ments for the unique little stand
shown in Fig. 1.
It does not matter much in what
state of repair the chairs are, they
can be made to serve your purpose.
The 6eats may be broken through;
that makes no difference because they
are to be concealed by the boxes used
for the counter top. If a leg is broken,
as is often the case with a discarded
chair that you may find, you can
easily bind a stick to that CQrner of
the chair to prop it up, while, if a
back is broken, it can be mended good
enough by binding a long stick up
and down or across it
WAS SEATED WITH SHERIFF
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legs, fastening it so as to hang down
to the ground as shown in Fig. 1. A
piece of cardboard with “Ice Cold Lem-
onade” lettered upon it may be made
to conceal the space between the chaif
backs, as shown in the illustration.
READING FOR THE SOLDIERS
Germany Sending Motor Trucks With
Books to Men on the Fighting
Front.
“Books for soldiers” has become thq
slogan of a great part of the stay-at-
home population of Germany, and tha
popularity of the “Bildungskanone’1
(educational cannon), as the field cin
dilating libraries are called by thq
men in gray, seems almost to rival that
of the famous “Gulaschkanone,” which
supply the hot meals that keep thq
kaiser’s fighters in condition.
The task of distributing the book*
has been taken over by a special corn*
mittee, headed by Undersecretary
Conze, which has begun to send out
the libraries on wheels, and which
hopes to have 100 of them in servica
within a short time.
These “Bildungskanone,” as de<
scribed in the Berliner Tageblatt, con<
sist of big motor trucks carrying from
1,000 to 1,500 volumes each, arranged
on shelves and looked after by a li-
brarian. The first five of the field li-
braries were sent to the eastern front
As the roads in Poland and Serbia in
some cases do not admit of the use ol
the heavy lorries, arrangements havq
been made for forwarding the books in
special chests.
It is estimated that one motor li-
brary will be sufficient for 20,000 men.
Third in Aviation Death Toll.
Aeronautics—that branch of it em
braced by the aeroplane—claimed 101
lives in the year 1915, according tq
statistics recently compiled. Thpsq
figures do not include the number o|
aviators who met death as the direcj
result of war.
The American loss of lives wa<
fourteen, three of whom were passen-
gers. The deaths reported in othei
countries were: Argentina, three; Bel-
gium, five; Bulgaria, two; Chile, one;
Denmark, two; England, 28; France,
29; Germany, eight; Italy, six;
Sweden, tbi’ee; Japan, five; Spain, L
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Vernor, J. E. The Lampasas Daily Leader. (Lampasas, Tex.), Vol. 13, No. 54, Ed. 1 Monday, May 8, 1916, newspaper, May 8, 1916; Lampasas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth906221/m1/3/?q=%22~1~1%22~1: accessed July 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Lampasas Public Library.